Flesh Quotes

It is only necessary to make war with five things with the maladies of the body, the ignorances of the mind, with the passions of the flesh, with the seditions of the politic and the discords of families. (Pythagoras)
Art is science made flesh. View quote
Jean Cocteau
In America all too few blows are struck into flesh. We kill the spirit here, we are experts at that. We use psychic bullets and kill each other cell by cell. View quote
Norman Mailer
Isn't it true that the fault of birth rests somewhat on the child? I believe it's we who led our parents on to bear us, and it's our unborn children who make our flesh itch. View quote
T. E. Lawrence
Consciousness is much more than the thorn, it is the dagger in the flesh. View quote
Emil Cioran
Satanism is not a white light religion; it is a religion of the flesh, the mundane, the carnal - all of which are ruled by Satan, the personification of the Left Hand Path. View quote
Anton LaVey
A satirist is a man whose flesh creeps so at the ugly and the savage and the incongruous aspects of society that he has to express them as brutally and nakedly as possible in order to get relief. View quote
John Dos Passos
Rehearsing a play is making the word flesh. Publishing a play is reversing the process. View quote
Peter Shaffer
How much has to be explored and discarded before reaching the naked flesh of feeling. View quote
Claude Debussy
I write scripts to serve as skeletons awaiting the flesh and sinew of images. View quote
Ingmar Bergman
Your very flesh shall be a great poem... (Walt Whitman)
Every individual who eats flesh food, whether an animal is killed expressly for him or not, is supporting the trade of slaughtering and contributing to the violent deaths of harmless animals. View quote
Philip Kapleau
No one should have to pay for love in flesh or blood. (Acheron) View quote
Sherrilyn Kenyon
The actor creates with his own flesh and blood all those things which all the arts try in some way to describe. View quote
Lee Strasberg
The good historian is like the giant of the fairy tale. He knows that wherever he catches the scent of human flesh, there his quarry lies. View quote
Marc Bloch
I am the family face Flesh perishes, I live on, Projecting trait and trace Through time to times anon, And leaping from place to place Over oblivion. View quote
Thomas Hardy
Death is a stopping of impressions through the senses, and of the pulling of the cords of motion, and of the ways of thought, and of service to the flesh. View quote
Marcus Aurelius
I am Warhol. I am the No. 1 most impactful artist of our generation. I am Shakespeare in the flesh. View quote
Kanye West
For present joys are more to flesh and blood than a dull prospect of a distant good. View quote
John Dryden
My principal anguish, and the wellspring of all my joys and sorrows, has been the incessant merciless battle between the spirit and the flesh. View quote
Nikos Kazantzakis
In each individual the spirit is made flesh, in each one the whole of creation suffers, in each one a Savior is crucified. (Hermann Hesse)
Show me a character whose life arouses my curiosity, and my flesh begins crawling with suspense. View quote
Fawn M. Brodie
Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order. View quote
Samuel Butler (novelist)
The robe of flesh wears thin, and with the years God shines through all things. View quote
John Buchan
Though marriage makes man and wife one flesh, it leaves em still two fools. View quote
William Congreve